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Russell Martin
Glad to see everyone talking about Russell in the comments after Sunday's game. He's clearly becoming one of the best all-around players in the league, but you wouldn't know it from the All-Star balloting results that came out today. He's only ranked fourth among NL catchers, which is a joke I must say, with all due respect.
The guy is leading NL catchers in just about every category that exists except votes for the ASG. I'm not sure if it's because he's young, plays on the West Coast or that other teams do a better job of getting out the vote, but it's hard to even fathom him ranking fourth on a list of NL catchers. So, while I'm sure you're tired of the constant campaigning, I have to implore everyone to vote for Russell up to 25 times with each email address. Campaigns like this have worked the last two years in bringing visibility to Cesar Izturis and Nomar Garciaparra, both of whom were deserving All-Stars and got to the Midsummer Classic because of you all.
I know that it is ridiculous for us to have to solicit votes like this, but as long as the starters are determined in this manner, you'll continue to see us trying to get out the vote.
Anyway, getting off the soapbox for a moment, yesterday was a nice off day and I hope everyone had a nice Memorial Day and at least got a few moments to think about the significance of the holiday. Fittingly, the Dodgers headed to the nation's capital for the next three games and will be visiting Walter Reed Memorial Hospital tomorrow and the Pentagon on Thursday.
I'm not on this trip, as I split them with our Assistant Director of PR, Joe Jareck. But he's going to keep us in the loop with lineups and I'll continue to blog from the West Coast.
Pierre, CF
Furcal, SS
Nomar, 1B
Kent, 2B
Gonzalez, LF
Martin, C
Ethier, RF
Abreu, 3B
Penny, P
150 Comments
Great post on russell…too bad our best player is batting 6th. Thats just pathetic. I said i wouldn't watch any games where Gonzo is batting 5th. Looks like im not watching the game tonight.
Max, I think you said you wouldn't watch any more games until Martin batted 5th. He already has, so I think you're in the clear. Feel free to enjoy the team even if you disagree with a lineup…
yeah i did but i don't want to watch gonzo pop out with runners on and then see MArtin hit a double to start off the next inning.
plus i have to work at 4:30 anyways. ha
c'mon guys, lets vote russell in. as for something a little less important to many, but extremely crucial to me is takashi saito's entrance song. it $UCKS. BAD TO THE BONE? why?… that gets no one pumped up. two quick suggestions as i look at my ipod are, Cold War Kids: hang me out to dry, and Kasabian: Empire. these work.
i like saito's song. it gets me pumped 🙂
Not too crazy about the lineup tonight…
In other news, i just saw a Fox sports power ranking– every team in the NL West is in the top 13 team– somehow the giants are ranked 13th in the league, so who knows how accurate these rankings are but it was nice to see some ppl acknowledge the very good competition in the NL West. Its going to be a dogfight to end i believe…
yeah Bad To the Bone has to go…Kasabian is a great choice ray…i saw them at Coachella in 2005 and they were amazing.
My personal choices would be "Glasgow Mega-Snake" by Mogwai or "Teardrop" by Massive Attack.
"Teardrop" just sounds like the end of the world and well thats basically what Saito is to the other team. Once he comes in its over.
Martin not making the top spot isn't the only injustice in the Allstar Balloting. I have no idea what people's reasons are for voting for the players they do, but seriously, some of these voters are smoking something good.
true that kirby— the whole fan voting things blows…
Fan favorites should be the reserves while the starters should be determined by a vote amongst the players and managers…
i saw them back then as well max, siick band. thats a good song, i just want whoever is incharge of picking his song to wake up and realize his current song is boring, and cheesy.
"Time is Running Out" by Muse would be a great song for Sammy.
here's a link to a video of the song if anyones interested.
Matt Holliday is hitting .341/.377/.587 and leading the Majors in hits is 15th on the OF list. That's just down right criminal.
Frankly, I'm surprised Martin is doing as well as he is in the voting. Fans vote for who they are familiar with and Russell barely has a year in the bigs. Under these conditions it's a tribute to how well he's doing and the reputation he is building to be that high. Of course he should be higher, but I only get 25 votes.
I also think it is asking a lot of the kid to bat any higher in the order for a while. He does a tremendous job of handling the staff, and he may be more comfortable at 6th for the present.
Get out the vote.
Of course Russ Martin doesn't get the respect he deserves. How can he, when his own manager bats him 6th in a lineup where he clearly is the best hitter on the team.
Russ Martin doesn't get the respect from his manager, much less the people across the nation… Grady is a complete IDIOT…
.368 .435 .579 1.014 5 hole
.312 .395 .473 .868 6 hole
.258 .359 .394 .753 5 hole
.381 .435 .619 1.054 6 hole
Russell also leads the team in runs scored. That just proves how unproductive out 1-2-3 guys have been.
Your problem is that you're approaching this batting order business with statistics and logic; Grady has that twenty years plus experience in baseball and his gut feeling – what do you think will prevail?
our*… this would be our most productive lineup…
Gonzo <KEMP!!!!!!!
Now that is a proper Flyball!
ha! i was just typing that. good job pierre
That's about the best way to start a game…Triple for Pierre.
Yeah Nomar!
And that's a 1-0 lead sweet stroke by Nomar
Obviously your right…
What was I thinking???
Not that it really matters (nor will we ever know), but I am kind of curious where Russell Martin wants to bat in the order (although I can't imagine that it would be in the 6 hole – but you never know). I'm thinking that he would prefer the number 3, 4, or 5 spot, but that's just my guess.
I may be old school, but I like "Bad to the Bone" for Takashi Saito. I also think "Dirty Deeds" or "TNT" by AC/DC would be a good fit, too.
russ martin batting 6th… Grady what the ****?
You didn't think he was going to stay with Martin batting 6th for long.
I can see if he went 0/7 batting in the 6th spot against the Cubs last 2 games when we did have are throw away lineup in back to back game. Grady should leave Martin in that 5th spot.
Kid has some wheels on him!
yay pierre!
I hope the Mets come back.
JP is scary…..but WTG! anyways.
I don't know if you guys are watching the giants game on espn, but that Lincecum kid for the Giants has some sick stuff.
Definitely not looking forward to facing him…
Wow — Best game by Pierre as a Dodger so far — Gettin hit in the leg must have helped… Ha Ha
I spoke too soon…
He is back to being PATHETIC PIERRE !!!
spoke to soon rwbjr
Look at Pierre triple, double, run scored and an RBI so far. Can't ask for more from your leadoff man, great job thus far. And then he gets pickedoff and ruins my post lol. Great job still, aside from that.
I have mentioned how much I love Juan Pierre, right..???
I have mentioned how much I dislike Pierre, right??
lol, I can't freaking win. I pay the guy the first compliment since he was a rockie and this is what he does to me!
Just as I was going to say something nice about Pierre …
Wonder what the Dodger record is for being picked off in a season. He must be getting close.
I still like the Hitting JP better then the not on base to get pickedoff JP.
pierre is half way to a cycle… i wonder if he'll get a cycle for the year. meaning hit one homer this year at all.
Dang Pierre now the hating going to come out again.
Yes Jungar, I think we have all mentioned how much we LOVE Pierre….
Love him or Hate him, Grady & Ned are going to make sure we are stuck with him for a long time…
Yeah an inside the park homerun.
Now what are you all gonna do if he does cycle?I want to see forks and knives going full speed while eating that crow.
Fenway,Chavez and Dolphin stadiums?
Wes Parker and Vinny will be besides themselves if Pierre hits for the cycle.
pierre is not going to hit a hr in rfk. place is a cavern.
I remember Vins reaction to Loney getting 9 rbi's it wasn't what I would expect from him.
all the better for an inside the park shot.
That's more of a reason he will hit one. No one here thinks he can actually clear the wall (any wall) on a fly.
That is why I said inside the park homerun.
Now wouldn't that be something if he misses it by a single…
Pierre won't get an HR inside or out of the park…
I am certain he will slide into third even with the ball still in the outfield…
LOL! That's funny Ron! "…done dirt cheap!" I don't think we want to be reminding Sammy that we got such a great deal on his services!
Penny looking real good tonight!
Go Dodgers!!
he stood on his triple
This 1st pitch swinging really ***** ……
The day games while I am at work just seem to breeze right by. The afternoon games on Sat/Sunday or whatever seem to take forever. Why couldn't it be opposite!
oooh was afraid of that……
I still hate Pierre.
that's true. he could do the inside the park. he's having a great game. but everyone should be having a great game, this pitcher just isn't very good.
not nearly as bad as that SS…
well we know where to hit em now….
Nomar & Gonzo Really Banging the ball… Better lucky than good…I guess
Nice Hit Martin!
and martin continues to be amazing *swoon*
Nomar has 2 more extra base hits in May than I do and 3 less than Gonzo.
I actually enjoyed the emotion Lyons just put out there about Martin. And then Martin delievered at the perfect moment. And we all need to kick some serious —, tell your friends, steal their e-mail addresses, whatever you gotta do, we have to do our best to get Russell where he belongs and most certainly to not let the decision come down to Tony La Russa.
i don't care who's in the ASG as long as the NL can finally take one. It's time. I know, they're going to lose again…
Email addys are easy Hotmail Yahoo msn make a few extra accounts and put up 25 per all the while voting for the worst AL line up.
Can you not care while voting for Martin 25 times at least jspelk2?
penny's awesome
Penny is now only 11 points behind JP in BA. Way to help your cause Brad!!!
wow…pierre's on fire!
Penny needs to run faster………..
Ok Juan Pierre is absolutely incredible tonight and how the heck did Penny not score on that???
Ok are they really intentionally walking Furcal to get to Nomar? Ok….
someone hand me a new all star ballot…i need to make a change at CF. lol
Bases are loaded Which Nomar is up?
Juan Pierre: 4 for 4 3 Doubles and a triple and should have 3 RBI's if Penny weren't running the bases at those moments. Wow and anybody else who says otherwise is a wank.
and atleast 2 triples
WOW that was the weakest 2 rbi hit ever!
That's why it was only a fielder's choice RBI and an error Fisher lol
kinna figured that…
dang ibb Furcal for Nomar. My god they think Nomar *****.
Woo Hoo This is exactly what we need!
i just knew gonzo would hit a home run tonight…yay!
Gonzo put some HURT on that ball! Holy cow!!
Hello Gonzo! 9-0 Dodgers! Night Night Baby Go To Sleep Now!
Too bad Furcal not having a good game so why would they IBB him? Oh yeah to set up for the DP.
ugh. we need to sweep this team.
Nice Gonzo
Today shows what this team is capable of — we need to have days like this more often…It is a heck of alot more fun to watch when we hit with men on base…
Great day for Pierre…
so what does that put him on track for (Gonzo) 20-25 HR's Gotta admit that his bat is not really hurting the team against bad teams.
No not Braz with runners on…….
as long as he doesn't bring in Bombko…
man i still can't believe how amazing these old/new road uni's are.
That fly out doesn't bother me tonight!!!
9 TB for JP tonight that is probably a career game for him.
Nice play in the hole for Abreu.
Padres go down to the Bucs 4-1
Let's pull away with this road trip, three sweeps would be great.
Yes especially in SD.
10-0 in just over 2 1/2 hours is a very fast game.Nice 2 inns by Tomko not to mention a Great Job all around by Penny! And JP WOW!
We really need to pluck the Friars… they're almost as annoying as the Diminutives…
Nice game for the Good Guys. I'm glad that Colletti never pulled the trigger on a trade for Brad and who knows, the whole JP thing may work itself out. Even with the concerns we have we are still a competative team and lead our division.
One suggestion on Martin: I'm sure that all of the die-hards on this blog have maxed out our All-Star votes. Make sure that you get all of your friends to vote as well. I'm a teacher and asked all my classes to go and vote for Russ. Get the word out. At this rate we may have an all Dodger battery with Penny and Martin to start the game.
Great win tonight, GO BLUE!!!
no actually leamans I have still reserved my vote to see who is Hottest and healthy for the AS vote I'll get mine in But I want a NL win this year and don't want to waste any NL votes.
good point!!!
Ty I always think Blue but the older I get the more I try to think with my head and less with my heart.If we make the playoffs and I think we will and then manage to Make it to the WS, I'd really like to Have the Home advantage as there are very few AL Stadiums that we do well in.
My name sake, finally got the ball on the ground, with 4 extra base hits(3 doubles), I thought it was Ichiro. Nomar's 29th RBI made it 1-0, Pierre got us 1 & Martin's team leading 34th RBI made it 3-0, Nomar again his 30th and it's 4-0, Error 5-0, Super J.K.'s 30th, 6-0. da Gonz's 6th HR a 3 run job and finally it's Furcal 10-0. Finally the most important thing RBI. Don Sutton can't fiqure out why Penny can't complete games, I say who needs complete games, not when you got guy's like Brazoban & Tomko hanging around. To put the cherry on the cake the paaaarrrrddds lost.
Question for Josh: I'm a Dodger fan that lives in Florida and I was wondering if the draft is open to the public? I've seen the NFL and NBA draft with fans attending but wondered if MLB fans can show up. Maybe some of us could meet in O-Town and show our support.
Now I've seen a lot of things but never this:
Armando Benitez of the Giants balked twice with a 4-3 lead in the bottom of the 12th inning. The first was with Jose Reyes on first, moving him to second, he was bunted over to third and Benitez balked Reyes in to tie the game AND Benitez just gave up a walk off HR to Delgado! Just WOW! Mets win 5-4.
My 2 favorite teams – the Dodgers and whoever is playing the Giants.
Yet somehow Benitez managed to close out ALL three games against us when the giants swept us at home.
ugh, this bills being skipped over for a spot in the rotation really annoys me. i mean, dj houlton? really? why not let bills start and thrown houlton in the pen. or have him piggy back.
I did my part… Voted for Martin 25 times! gonna do it again too with my friend's email address.
I was just reading over the blogs when my daughter called me up. "Congradulation daaaady, on your team winning" That reminded me the the last time I looked up the Mets & the Giants were tied 3-3. The Mets are her team, I said, "What Happened in the Met's game". She said, "We helped you out again" I new right away what she meant because, she knows I hate the Giants, because of Bobby Thomson and I'm a Dodger die heart. She said "Benitez blew it". I always made sure she wouldn't be a Dodger fan, because they're 3,000 miles away. But with today's tecnology, Maybe it wouldn't of been to bad.
I was glad to hear D.J. Houlton is making it back. The crazyest thing is that I understand that Jose Valentin has got more votes then Kent. Russel Martin making the All-Star in not as important as Russel Martin making the Dodgers.
Mike Bacsik is a left handed pitcher, now let's see if you did your home work, boys & girls. Who the lead off hitter tomorrow?
oooh definatly not the Guy who went 4/5 today with 9 tb's….he probably bats 8th tomorrow….D^&%&^in J???That is Just Plain *&%&$^^&()& Stupid$#%$!$ BS &%% Garbage (^(^ pitcher Can we PLEASE Pull the Plug on this Guy???I'd Rather Pitch Tomko on Back to Back Starts then That guy…..Yes I am aware of his AAA 3.+ or there abouts 5-2 or something record and That He Really Truly ***** beyond belief in the Majors…..I remember him actually asking how to get an out in the ML when Dumposer picked him up and we had to keep him all year at ML level…..Just another reminder of the garbage that he brought to this team….D^*$^&&$J&$&$ Houlton that has got to be the sickest Joke ever…….Gimme a Freakin Break………..JP Goes 9 TB Penny is near perfect we score 10-0 and lets see what can we do to screw it all up? Yeah DJ's the man to blow it up…Tracy has to be Loving this…
But Then again that was all just Media comments and Grady really never does what he tell's the media he is going to be doing.Houlton would be what 8th or so starter? Saw That Stinnet Quit to go Coach LL with his .200avg. and a Losing record. Maybe the 51's can get something going with a Fresh Catcher now.Hmmm Kemp was out again tonight….
I hope today marks a turnaround for Pierre.
Wow, didn't mean for the "man crush" comment to create such a stir. Just a saying guys…I'm glad some of you joined in the crushing.
Honestly, the Russ Martin All-Star campaign needs to have shirts printed with Russ' Mug (similar to the one on this post) saying, "Man crush's are ok – Vote Russ Martin." I'd wear it!
But seriously… "man crush" just takes the place of "idol" or "hero" Man crush's are nothing to be ashamed of. Frankly, I hope I develop one for JP. If he keeps this up I definitely will!
Think Blue
I dunno must be an eastcoast thing or something….The Kid is Good I like his personality and his abilities but the whole man crush thing just really doesn't fit in my limited narrow minded vocabulary…..I'll Lead cheers and act like a stark raving lunatic but I can't do the man crush thing and I'm pretty sure my wife who Loves the Kid more then anyone else on the team wouldn't dig me having a 'man crush' either **** she can barely put up with me Loving the team.In Shawn Green's Best years with the team I'd Tell her He's my Hero everytime he turned on a ball and sent it into orbit.She was fine with that and so was I then in his demise it was to the point where I hated to see him come to bat because he was just gonna flyout yet again or hit another dp ball.The problem with crushes are the downhill slide after that person becomes human again.That's NY's problem with A-Rod.
Breakout the Voting booths Martin is over 140K in the hole against that washed up .329avg Mets catcher….
They fix the glitch from last year because I voted over 1000+ times for Nomar from the same email account.
lee one problem even though SD is closer to us in the standing, you would still root for SD against the Giants regardless of the standing. What if Padres playing the Giants a 3 games series and we only need 1 win to clinch or a SD lost would you root for SF for one SD lost?
oops sorry I mean lea
Are you kidding me Hart doesn't even play full time?
A great win yesterday boys. Great work by Brad Penny, Juan Pierre, and Luis Gonzalez. Let's keep it rolling! I'll be happy with 7 of 10 on this road trip. Anything beyond that would be GREAT!
Ya know, you can't predict the season by last night's game, nor can you say That Saturday or Sunday's games told the true story. I hope Friday's win was no indication, but it was an exciting game. It seemed like over the Memoral Day Weekend, the Dodgers were excitingly inconsistent but over all we saw what they were capable of doing. I have to say another thing, even if it sounds contridictory, because I keep preaching about the need for power hitting outfielders, but I think, Pierre is here to stay. I got to admit he is a bundle of excitement, even when he's jogging on and off the field, even when he's walking, for that matter. It is hard to discribe his animal like movements. He looks like he knows what he's doing, but yet he looks suprised. I noticed all this before he came here. He's fast and you can't take your eyes off him, He reminds me of myself except for the most important part, I couldn't hit for distance either, but even though my legs were moving rapidly I took a long time to get where I was going. Not this J.P., he moves. That said, the power has to come from SOME WHERE ELSE.
Great job by Penny and Pierre last night in DC. Penny continues his outright dominance. Juan had a ******* career game. I'd love for him to continue to hit like that, but that's highly unlikely.
Dodgers need a sweep. They got three tough series up next: SD, TOR and NYM.
ok so i busted my knee pretty bad this morning while running and now i'm stuck in bed all day…i got bored and since someone said something about a t-shirt, i designed one for fun using the pic in this post for all you men out there who love martin.
anyway, i hope we sweep the nationals. GO DODGERS!
I was just reading about Guillermo Mota, our old pal and Gagne setup man. who will be back with the Mets after his suspension. Ya know, I want to write about this steroit stuff, just once and only once, because like everybody else, I want to express my opinon about it. Since I've mentioned an Ex-Dodger to start off with, this is a the purfect place for it. The last and only time. I know a lot of people will disagree with me. But here's the way I feel about it. The only way to tell it, is talk about myself. All my life I loved baseball. I wanted to become a Major Leaguer, ever since I was a little boy and I knew there was a Brooklyn Dodgers and a Jackie Robinson. The sad part is, I knew what it took and by the time I got to High School, I knew I didn't have it. And so did a lotta people. Anyway, if there was someway else I could do it, I know the way I felt, that if I found it, I would do it. I could hit, with very little power, but I could, but I couldn't run and no where on earth, could I find what to do about all this. IF someone, no matter who, would come to me with a secret formular, that could make me run or be a better infielder, or hit that ball over the fence, I know eventually I would have did anything, I don't know what would have happened to me, I don't know if my dream would have come true, I don't know if it could have hurt me physically. By the time I heard about steroids, I was just turning 60 and I'm pretty sure it was a little to late. I see it's 83 degrees in Washington D.C. at the moment.
After watching the end of the Mets and giants (Was that weird,or what?) I came away thinking we were going to have to have a bit more to deal with the Mets. Some of you have been saying this all along. Since we already have several key players whose tanks are getting a little low, I think this means Cabrera. If Nick pulls the trigger, and I think he will, to me this means he'll have to send several players to Florida for Cabrera, who has got much of his career ahead of him.
well, all you yadier molina haters got your wish. he's out 4-6 weeks with some kind of wrist injury, so now there's no way he'll be selected by TLR for the allstar game.
Can't say enough good things about Russell Martin this season. He is a huge part of the success this season. Go Martin!
Pierre had a great game. I don't think we can expect that type of game from him but once in a blue moon. He seems better or more comfortable fielding than when the season began. I think he's done some adjusting at least in the field. The hitting I dunno. Maybe he did well because of the big park. His 3 year splits seems to indicate he hits well at most of the parks with huge outfields (with the huge exception of petco) and struggles at parks with average or small outfields with the exception of Minute Maid). It makes sense I guess. What ***** most is he's never hit well at DS and now he's gonna have to find a way to do so now that he has to hit here 1/2 the time.
I think he can do it. Go Pierre!
nice post gadams12 i never looked at Pierre abilities to hit in bigger ball parks. Like ive said before i think by the end of the season we will be saying where would we be without Pierre out in center. Yes his bat has been more than shaky (thats an understatement) and the defense kinda head scratching but for the most part he has been getting his hits in and stealing those bases. All we need him to do is get on base a couple of times during the game and do the little things like make sure you catch the ball, and i believe he has been doing that as of late. Go PIERRE!!!!
As for LoDuca leading the voting at the C position, that is outrageous!!!!!!!!! The guy is a bum yes his batting average is decent but thats only because he has played less games than the other NL catchers and has less AB he barely qualifies for the 3.1 average plate appearances to be even in the league leaders stats. he only has 2 Hr (Martin still with onyl 3) and 2 Sb also only 18 runs scored compared to Martin's ******** 31 (most by any catcher in the bigs!!!! The only one who should be in front of Martin in the voting is B Molina and thats even a stretch but hey the guy is hitting the ball well but he is no were near the talent level of Martin. So that is ridiculous that the voting has gone the way it has. Atleast Martin has a big chance now to be selected by Tony if he doesnt win it out right, to me that would be an insult to Martin but hey at least he would be there! I have dedicated a couple of hours of my day everyday to voting for Martin with e-mails that i have created on Yahoo! ex. email@example.com, email@example.com and so on. (just an idea for my fellow fans to help get Martin his first All-Star start! you can do the same like on msn or other free e-mail places) I have already voted like 750 times since last nites posting of the voting numbers! Sorry to bring this up again but hey i think i may have a Man Crush! I know it may seem a little drastic to create so many e-mails to vote for him but hey the guy deserves it! GO MARTIN!!!
20 batters faced for Schmidt.
Seven strikeouts,
eight flyouts,
two groundouts
two hits,
a walk and a caught stealing.
jungar, you beat me to it…i was just about to post that.
i hope schmidt goes back into the rotation soon
Hopefully he feels well tommorrow. That will be the key. If Schmidt comes back we are so much deeper and then maybe in a better posistion to make a trade when the time is right.
My crow tasted great yesterday. I have been hard on Nomar, Gonzo and JP. Let's go blue, let's win today and take the series.
jungar do you know how many pitchers were made?
no, sorry man. No word yet ion his velocity either.
NP thanks for the other stuff though. He pitched pretty solid but it is at a single A rehabe game. I really hope his velocity was up in the 90's finally and his pitch count up into the high 80's or low 90's, that would be awesome!
I'm curious to know what Schmidt's veocity was today as well. That would be a good indicator if he is healthy again or not. That said, I have to believe that he didn't crank it up all the way today either. We shall see.
Hey Zo – Why not cut and past the photo of Martin that I took on Dodger Photo Day? It is exactly what he looks like now, with his fuzzy chin and all. (Sorry, but I'm still sticking with admire and respect. No Man Crush from me). Sorry to hear about your knee. Get well soon!
No man can be brave who considers pain the greatest evil of life; or temperate , who regards pleasure as the highest good. Do you think so? http://www.nicetick.com
That quote seems to be all too true, philosophically. Somewhat like Aristotle's definition of the Will in his Nicomachean Ethics. I've often found that, when I eschew fear of pain for a purpose beyond my own enjoyment, but perhaps for the good of others, I feel more satisfied than I do when I do something I want in lieu of the consequences it may have on others.
Of course, I falter, as all humans come short of perfection (in my case, FAR short), but there is the recognizance that nothing good comes without hard work and a physical toll, and one won't find inner peace if they become too attached to material things
Not quite sure what the Cicero quote has to do with Nikes ( or the Dodgers '07 or '11 editions, for that matter), but this was a pleasant surprise for someone up too late on a Thursday night (or Friday morning). Haven't had much of a philosophical workout since my college days.


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Hi All!
I have written many apps which print forms, textboxes,etc., but his latest app has me bouncing off the walls. I have an automated ticket generator for a truck scale. Imagine this: an Okidata Dot Matrix printer, which feedsthe paper via carriage wheel. Each 8.5 x 11 carbon-copy paper is actually divided into three carbon-copy tickets separated by perforations.
My problem is this: I have drawn a form which fits on each ticket(1/3 of the page) quite well. However, I cannot figure out how to make the printer feed ONLY 1/3 OF THE PAGE after each spool. What ends up happening is a whole page is fed in, and two tickets are wasted each print. Of course, I could just tell the guy to feed the paper backout after every ticket, but then he would have to worry about lining it up correctly every time.
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The election was a shock for many, especially on the West Coast where we have not been overly affected by the long-term loss in US manufacturing or stagnant wage growth of the past decade. But the votes are in and a new era is ahead of us. So, what does this mean for the housing market?
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November 07, 2016
Oregon and South West Washington Real Estate Market Update
Posted in Market News and Oregon and Southwest Washington Real Estate Market Update by Matthew Gardner, Chief Economist, Windermere Real Estate
The labor market in Oregon/Southwest Washington continues to remain robust. During third quarter, the region added 13,800 new jobs, up from the 9,500 jobs that were created in the same period in 2015. Year-over-year, the region has grown at an impressive rate of 3.5%—well above the U.S. rate of 1.7%—and has one of the fastest rates of job creation in the nation.
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November 01, 2016
Nevada Real Estate Market Update
Posted in Market News and Nevada Real Estate Market Update by Matthew Gardner, Chief Economist, Windermere Real Estate
Home prices are increasing at a reasonable pace but there are some sub-markets that are over-performing at the present time. This is not a concern, as I think buyers will start to be more selective regarding the neighborhoods that they want to move to. This process will allow some markets to appreciate at levels higher than the regional averages.
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November 01, 2016
Windermere Launches New Ultra-Luxury Brand: W Collection
Posted in Windermere by Shelley Rossi
Thanks in large part to the booming economy, growing tech sector, and increasing international appeal, Seattle is no longer a sleepy little city tucked away in the far corner of the United States. With this changing landscape has come an infusion of wealth that has seen the area's high-net-worth population explode. And with it, so too has the ultra-high-end real estate market.
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Percona XtraBackup 2.0.7¶
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.0.7 on May 6, 2013. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories.
This release is the current GA (Generally Available) stable release in the 2.0 series.
New Features¶
This version of Percona XtraBackup has implemented full support for new
MySQL 5.6 features (
GTID, remote/transportable tablespaces, separate undo
tablespace, 5.6-style buffer pool dump files).
Percona XtraBackup has implemented support for the InnoDB Buffer Pool Preloading introduced in MySQL 5.6. Starting with MySQL 5.6 buffer pool dumps can be produced and loaded for faster server warmup after the start. This feature is similar to the Dump/Restore of the Buffer Pool in Percona Server. MySQL 5.6 buffer pool dump is copied into backup directory during the backup stage. During the copy back stage (restore) it is copied back to data directory. After the backup is restored buffer pool dump can be loaded by the server either automatically on startup or on demand.
Time interval between checks done by log copying thread is now configurable by
innobackupex --log-copy-interval. Making the interval configurable
allows to reduce the time between checks which can prevent Percona XtraBackup
failures that are caused by the log records in the transactional log being
overwritten before they are copied by the log copying thread.
Percona XtraBackup now stores the
GTID value in the
xtrabackup_binlog_info when doing the backup of MySQL and Percona Server 5.6 with the
GTID mode enabled. Example of how this information can
be used to create/restore a slave can be found in this blogpost.
Percona XtraBackup option
xtrabackup --export now supports
transportable tablespaces introduced in MySQL 5.6. This option can be used to
produce 5.6-style metadata files, that can be imported by
TABLESPACE on MySQL and Percona Server 5.6 as described in
Restoring Individual Tables guide.
Bugs Fixed¶
xtrabackup_56 binary was present in
rpm and
deb packages, but it
was missing from the source
.tar.gz package. Fixed by adding the missing
binary to
.tar.gz as well. Bug fixed #1158948.
innobackupex could crash when taking the 5.6 backup due to linking the wrong
SSL library. Bug fixed #1168540.
Percona XtraBackup would crash when preparing the 5.6 backup with partitioned tables. Bug fixed #1169169.
Tables that were dropped between taking a full backup and an incremental one were present in the full backup directory, and were not removed when incremental backups has been merged. Fixed by removing files corresponding to tables that are missing in the incremental backup directory. Bug fixed #856400.
Percona XtraBackup would leave stale
xtrabackup_tmp* files in the
datadir after applying incremental backups. Bug fixed #1079135.
Fixed couple of warnings found in innobackupex when all warnings have been
FATAL. Bug fixed #1116177.
If there are thousands of tables and slow IO then xtrabackup can spend a lot of time opening all the tablespaces. Optimization has been implemented and Percona XtraBackup now avoids loading non-relevant tablespaces when partial backup is being taken which speeds up the backup process. Bug fixed #1130145.
Percona XtraBackup didn't initialize per-thread data in the log copying thread which could cause Percona XtraBackup to crash. Bug fixed #1166888.
Package dependency has been changed from abstract
mysql to real
/usr/bin/mysql file, because
rpm packages from Oracle no longer
mysql dependency which is required by the Percona XtraBackup
rpms. Bug fixed #1095972.
Percona XtraBackup would fail when preparing the MySQL 5.6 backup if the log files were bigger than 4G on the source server. Bug fixed #1164979.
Due to different implementation in MySQL 5.6 error messages were not printed
stderr directly. Because of that all InnoDB error or diagnostic messages
are never printed by xtrabackup_56. Bug fixed #1169971.
innobackupex would still run with
FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK even if
xtrabackup would fail when copying logs. Fixed by terminating xtrabackup
process immediately on log copying failure. Bug fixed #1170806.
innobackupex would fail if the
SQL_MODE was set to
ANSI_QUOTES. Bug
fixed #945161.
Missing space_id from
*.ibd.meta would lead to assertion. Fixed by replacing
the assertion with the error message. Bug fixed #1112224.
Fixed the typo in the innobackupex error output. Bug fixed #1157225.
When building from source
innodb56 target didn't have an option to disable
DTrace like
innodb55 has. Fixed by adding
-DENABLE_DTRACE=OFF build
option for
innodb56 as well. Bug fixed #1169509.
innobackupex wasn't handling the
innodb_data_file_path option which
could cause backup to fail. Bug fixed #1169726.
For the Debian and the Linux binaries, the
--version message which
should include the revision was showing "undefined". Bug fixed #1171721.
Redundant code has been removed from
xtrabackup.cc. Bug fixed #1162765.
Other bug fixes: bug fixed #1158154, bug fixed #1170340, bug fixed #1088309, bug fixed #1088307.


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Every year, we see hundreds of Mac products. On the hardware side, you've got Macs, iPhones, and iPods, of course, but also printers, hard drives, displays, cameras, camcorders, keyboards, mice, speakers, headphones, routers, scanners, and more. In software, the variety is even more staggering, from OS X itself to the Mac Gems that Dan Frakes regularly reviews. Every year, a few of those products stand out—for usefulness, value, innovation, or just overall excellence. Those are the products that are nominated for our Editors' Choice Awards.
In this year's Eddys judging, we started with a list of about 120 nominees. (We restricted ourselves to products released between November 1, 2008 and November 1, 2009.) We then met repeatedly to discuss those candidates and debate their merits. Over the course of several weeks, we winnowed the list repeatedly. In the end, we were left with just the ten hardware and 13 software products listed below—the products that truly deserve recognition as the year's best and, so, deserve our Editors' Choice Awards. (For more visual versions of this list, see Macworld Editors' Choice Awards: Hardware and Macworld Editors' Choice Awards: Software.)
Mac mini
The first Mac minis, released back in 2005, were several things at once: credible low-price computers, supercompact, and an obvious attempt to lure Windows users over to the Mac side. Many of us became instant fans. But then Apple seemed to give up on the mini. The company released a few updates over the following two years, but the Mac mini line essentially stagnated. That led many admirers to wonder whether Apple's smallest computer was headed for the dust bin, a cute but failed experiment.
Then in March 2009, a full 19 months since Apple had offered an update to the mini line, the company introduced its biggest Mac mini update ever ( ) (Best Current Price): faster CPUs, more RAM, a new graphics chip, dual video outputs (including support for Apple's 30-inch Cinema Display), larger hard drives, FireWire 800, more USB ports, 802.11n wireless, Bluetooth 2.1, and an 8X SuperDrive. In other words, nearly every feature of the mini was upgraded significantly, while the prices of the two models were unchanged.
And just seven months later, Apple updated the mini again ( ) (Best Current Price), increasing processor speeds, adding still more RAM and (on the low-end model) switching to a larger hard drive. The mini is the forgotten Mac no more: You won't find another name-brand computer with these specs in this small a package at these prices.
Apple didn't just bring the Mac mini line up to speed. In October, the company also released a completely new configuration, the $999 Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server ( ) (Best Current Price). It's essentially the $799 mini with a second 500GB hard drive (it has no optical drive) and preloaded with Mac OS X Server ( ); that software normally costs $499 all by itself. It is a full-featured, unlimited-user server in a tiny, energy-sipping package that is ideal for small businesses, some homes, and the education market.
The past year proves that Apple does indeed care about the Mac mini and, in fact, is using it to push the compact-computer envelope. The mini isn't for everyone; it's the least-powerful Mac—laptop or desktop—that Apple offers. But it's an extremely impressive machine for the size, and it's a good fit for both switchers and people on a budget. It also makes a great second Mac, and it's an appealing option for a Mac-based media system. This year, we were glad to see that the Mac mini is still very much alive.—Dan Frakes
$599 to $999; Apple
iPhone 3GS
We'll admit it: Even in the Macworld offices, the name of Apple's latest smartphone was cause for eye-rolling. But once we'd used the iPhone 3GS ( ), we had to admit: The 'S' does indeed stand for speed. There's no question the 3GS is significantly snappier than its predecessor.
After speed, the iPhone 3GS's other big improvement is its camera. While the cameras on the first two iPhones were good enough for quick snapshots, the 3GS upgraded its hardware to a respectable 3 megapixels, and added autofocusing and the ability to focus on a particular spot by tapping on the screen. A macro mode that lets you take close-up pictures is also a welcome enhancement, both for taking pictures and ancillary uses such as scanning bar codes.
The iPhone 3GS's camera also finally brought video recording to the iPhone. While it may not give you the high-definition quality you can get from some of today's pocket camcorders and digital cameras, the 3GS gave new life to the old adage, "the best [video] camera is the one you have with you." With an iPhone 3GS in your hand, pocket, or shoulder bag, you can shoot a video clip of your kids and upload it to YouTube faster than you can say "iPod nano." Other tweaks we liked: A long-awaited and surprisingly good voice-command feature, a much-needed oleophobic screen, and a compass that we suppose somebody must have wanted.
The iPhone 3GS still isn't perfect, of course. Sure, it supports the faster 7.2-Mbps HSDPA 3G standard. But given the glacial pace with which AT&T rolled out support for MMS and the fact that tethering is still missing, we'll likely see an iPhone 4G from Verizon before most of us here in the United States can take advantage of the 3GS's full potential on AT&T. Still, there's no question that, for the third year running, Apple's upped its game and once again produced the best iPhone yet.—Dan Moren
$199 (with a two-year contract); Apple
iPod Touch
This year's iPod touch ( ) (Best Current Price) isn't remarkable for its improved speed or slew of new features. Rather, the iPod touch earns an Eddy this year simply for its outstanding rightness.
Sure, you might take the nano or shuffle to the gym, and the iPod classic holds more media. But I'd bet that even if you were lucky enough to own every iPod model on the market, the touch is the one you'd use the most. It's the iPod you'd turn to when you want it all—music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, audiobooks, e-mail, Web browsing, stocks, weather, maps, contacts, calendars, and, most importantly, apps, apps, and more apps.
While the rest of the world was squashing full-size computer apps into pint-size netbooks or bolting computer-ish features onto media players, Apple created a powerful pocket computer that also happened to be a hell of a media player and portable gaming device. In other words, Apple got it right.—Christopher Breen
$199 to $399; Apple
MiFi 2200
At this point, Wi-Fi seems to be everywhere—in airports, cafes, hotels, and other public places where computer users collect. But there are still plenty of places where there's nary a hotspot to be found. A few years ago, we started seeing a solution for such coldspots: 3G modems and routers, which let you get online from almost anywhere you can get a cell phone signal. That technology has been evolving; this year we saw one of the nicest developments yet: the MiFi 2200 ( ).
Developed by Novatel Wireless and sold by several wireless carriers, the MiFi 2200 started popping up all over the place this year. One reason it seemed to catch on was its size: at 3.5 by 2.3 by .4 inches, it's about as tiny as a bite-size chocolate bar, small enough to stash in your pocket.
The MiFi 2200 is also about as easy to use as a tech product can be: Press the power button on the top and it connects to your carrier's cellular network. The SSID and password are on the bottom. You can share its access with up to five users at a time. Despite its size, the MiFi 2200 is a fully configurable Wi-Fi base station. Using its Web interface, you can give it a new SSID and password, limit access, adjust TCP/IP settings, and check on signal strength and battery life.
By making useful technology ultraportable, the MiFi 2200 became one of our favorite products of the year.—Dan Miller
$80; Verizon Wireless
Canon Powershot SD780 IS
In the crowded point-and-shoot market, it's hard to find a camera that's very good at everything. But the PowerShot SD780 IS ( ) (Best Current Price) is.
The 12-megapixel SD780 IS received some of the highest marks for image quality of any point-and-shoot that we reviewed in the past year. Its color accuracy and sharpness are both excellent, and it keeps the noise down in low-light and high-ISO shots. It also captures video at 720p HD resolution. At the same time, the SD780 is admirably easy to use, with intuitive, easy-to-navigate menus, and a nice 2.5-inch LCD. The camera's optical viewfinder—a rarity in point-and-shoot cameras these days—makes it easier to frame shots in bright sunlight. And the camera is still small enough to carry with you everywhere.
Combine those features and that ease of use, and you've got our favorite point-and-shoot of the year.—Roman Loyola
$250; Canon USA
Panasonic Lumix GF1
If you want the power and flexibility of an SLR without the size and weight of one, then Panasonic's Lumix GF1 ( ) (Best Current Price) can offer you an enticing compromise. It also happens to be a great camera.
The body of the 12-megapixel GF1 is roughly the size of a point-and-shoot. But unlike those compact cameras, the GF1 lets you use interchangeable lenses and includes an SLR-size image sensor—resulting in top-notch photos, even in relatively low light. The GF1 also records 720p high-definition video, shoots in Raw mode, and offers a full set of manual controls.
Like other cameras in this class, the GF1 achieves its small size by omitting a mirror box. That means it also lacks an optical viewfinder. Instead, you'll have to rely on the 3-inch LCD on the back (or shell out extra cash for an add-on accessory). That might turn off some buyers, but some people upgrading from a point-and-shoot might not even notice: Many compact cameras already leave off the viewfinder.
Although it's not the first Micro Four Thirds camera on the market, the GF1 is the smallest one in the category—and the first one that we think really gets it right.—Kelly Turner
$900; Panasonic
HP Photosmart Premium Web C309
Multifunction printers would seem to be pretty moribund: They print, scan, make copies, and sometimes fax. But with the Photosmart Premium Web C309, Hewlett-Packard says that these machines can do more.
The Web C309's coolest trick is that it supports HP's Print Apps. The Coupons.com app lets you print coupons before you go shopping; the Fandango app lets you buy and print movie tickets at home. There are 15 apps now, with more on the way.
At the same time, it is a completely capable MFP, with a 100-sheet input tray, an automatic duplexer, a PictBridge port, and memory card slots. It prints plain text at 8 pages per minute and graphics at 3.7 ppm. With the Web C309, HP proves that there is still innovation to be found in the printer market.—Roman Loyola
$400; Hewlett-Packard
Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive
Many vendors offer networked home media servers. But only one of those products earned an Eddy this year: The Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive ( ) (Best Current Price). It did so by taking the best features of its competitors and packaging them in a single, easy-to-use device..
Like other media servers, the Iomega Home Media drive stores your music, videos, and photos in one place, where they're accessible from any Mac or PC on your network. It has its own iTunes server, remote access capabilities, and support for Time Machine and BitTorrent.
Unlike some of its competitors, the Iomega Home Media drive is easy to set up and manage. It's that last bit that makes it one of our favorite products of the year.—Chris Holt
$150 to $350; Iomega
Flip MinoHD
In 2009, it seemed you couldn't turn around without tripping over a new HD pocket camcorder. Kodak, Creative, Sanyo, and others all released some of these miniature moviemakers. But Pure Digital (now a part of Cisco) really defined the category, repeatedly releasing ever more capable models. Our favorite: the $230 Flip MinoHD ( ) (Best Current Price).
While most pocket camcorders are studies in compromise, the MinoHD offers a great blend of features and performance. It's easy to operate and solidly built, includes a bright 2-inch display, shoots up to two hours of 720p high-definition video, and includes an HDMI video port. It shoots well in low light and gets colors and tone right under most shooting conditions. Like the other Flips, the MinoHD includes the FlipShare software, which lets you jack the MinoHD into a powered USB 2.0 port, extract video, perform basic edits, and upload the results to your favorite video-sharing service.
In a crowded field, the Flip MinoHD clearly stands out.—Christopher Breen
$200 to $230; Flip Video
Bamboo Fun
Tablets aren't for everyone. But whether you're a digital artist or just a regular user who'd like to use a pen instead of (or in conjunction with) a mouse, you should take a look at Wacom's Bamboo Fun tablet ( ) (Best Current Price).
The Fun can serve as a giant multitouch touchpad: Press one finger to the tablet to move the cursor; press two to perform gestures. Its pen is unbeatable for graphics work. It offers 1,024 levels of pressure sensitivity—invaluable for creating subtle effects in apps that support pressure sensitivity.
Put simply, the Bamboo Fun is one of the most innovative input devices we've come across in a while; it may be the nicest graphics tablet we've ever seen.—Jackie Dove
$199; Wacom


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In this television segment from the 1970s Canadian show Arts '74, artist Evelyn Roth discusses her work in textiles. In the first clip, she shows how she uses videotape as a material for crocheted wearable sculptures (including one which fastens the viewer to a television set) and even a car cozy. Roth's costumes reminded me of those in Forcefield's videos, and her interiors echo a bit with some of Donna Huanca's stage installations and Jacqueline Gordon's Dream Blankets. Neat!
Evelyn Roth on Arts '74
Elastic Youth: Interpreting the Scrunchie Video
In case you missed November's Elastic Youth: Interpreting the Scrunchie lecture by David Riley, organized by DIS Magazine, videos of the event are now online. The lecture comprised part of the programming for the exhibition Free.
NY Art Book Fair 2010
(from the studio alabaster booth)
Printed Matter's annual contemporary art book extravaganza The NY Art Book Fair opened last night, and I dropped by today to take some shots of the festivities for the blog. Easily one of my favorite yearly art events in New York, the fair hosts an overwhelming amount of booths, lectures, screenings, performances, and more by 200+ participating independent publishers, booksellers, zinesters, and artists. The fair is at PS1 in Long Island City, it's free, and it will be open today until 7pm, Saturday from 11am-7pm, and on Sunday from 11am-5pm. Also, be sure to scroll down to the end of this post for a round-up of media art and digital culture-related highlights.
(Dispatch did another version of this project at No Soul For Sale at the Tate Modern, which we covered on Rhizome, here.)
Homebrew Electronics
I met with sisters Sarah and Lara Grant of Felted Signal Processing the other week at their Brooklyn apartment. Felted Signal Processing is an ongoing project, which came out of their individual research as graduate students in NYU's ITP program. Sarah entered the program to further her skills in new media and Lara went to learn how to program, play with hardware and generally learn the electronic side to apply to her interactive fashion. Now graduated, they have teamed together up in their Felted Signal Processing project, which allows them to explore their joint passion for soft circuitry and wearable technology. Together, they build colorful, handmade felt interfaces that allow users to manipulate sound through physical interaction such as pulling, scrunching or stroking. Most of their interfaces are built to output sound, but they are also interested in the development of new materials and techniques for fabricating soft sensors for interfaces that can be hooked up to a variety of outputs. Lara has been felting for 7 years, and they explained that felt is their "dream medium." Sarah was the first of the two to apply the medium to soft circuitry; the name "Felted Signal Processing" actually came from her thesis, where she hacked a guitar pedal and integrated conductive felt into the circuit, letting users squeeze and scrunch the material in order to literally shape sound. Once Lara embarked on her thesis, she chose to develop a skill set of techniques to create and control variable resistance in soft circuitry. Sarah, a programmer with a background in new media art and a long standing interest in sound, focuses on the software and hardware side of their projects while Lara, who spent years working in fashion and textiles with an emphasis in conceptual ...
Fold Loud (2007) - JooYoun Paek
Fold Loud is a (de)constructing musical play interface that uses origami paper-folding techniques and ritualistic Taoist principles to give users a sense of slow, soothing relaxation.
Fold Loud interconnects ancient traditions and modern technology by combining origami, vocal sound and interactive techniques. Unlike mainstream technology intended for fast-paced life, Fold Loud is healing, recovering and balancing.
Playing Fold Loud involves folding origami shapes to create soothing harmonic vocal sounds. Each fold is assigned to a different human vocal sound so that combinations of folds create harmonies. Users can fold multiple Fold Loud sheets together to produce a chorus of voices. Opened circuits made out of conductive fabric are visibly stitched onto the sheets of paper which creates a meta-technological aesthetic. When the sheets are folded along crease lines, a circuit is closed like a switch. Thus, the interface guides participants to use repetitive delicate hand gestures such as flipping, pushing and creasing. Fold Loud invites users to slow down and reflect on different physical senses by crafting paper into both geometric origami objects and harmonic music.
PARTY FOOD (2006-Ongoing) - Joseph Gillette
[Stills from various episodes of PARTY FOOD.]
PARTY FOOD is a multi-dimensional art project that began as a few drawings and short stories in 2006. What followed has become a blend of performance, installation, and media that cannot be defined but through experience.
Patience Module (2008) - Ben Fino-Radin
[Hand embroidered yarn on plastic canvas, wood]
Knitoscope Testimonies (2006) - Cat Mazza
Knitoscope Testimonies is the first web based video using "Knitoscope" software, a program that translates digital video into a knitted animation. Knitoscope is a moving image offshoot of microRevolt's freeware knitPro. Knitoscope imports streaming video, lowers the resolution, and then generates a stitch that correspondes with the pixels color. The title "Knitoscope" is based on Edison's early animation technology the kinetoscope, which was a "coin operated peep show machine…watched through a magnifying lens". The "Testimonies" in this piece are from various professionals who work against sweatshop labor.
Google Tea Towels (2007) - Thomson & Craighead
[Source: Arc Projects Flickr]
A beautifully crafted set of four tea towels sporting a series of authentic search engine results returned to a user when the criteria, 'Please Help Me', 'Is Anybody there?', 'Please listen to me' and, 'Can you hear me?' were entered into the search field, while using Google in Netscape 4.7 on Mac OS 9.2 or Netscape 6 on Windows 98.
soundw(e)ave (2004) - Christy Matson
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Personally I wouldn't bother with 2.5 or 3 gallon kegs unless space requirements absolutely require it. you can put 2.5 or 3 gallons of beer in a 5 gallon keg but not vice versa. Generally, at least from what I have seen they are comparable prices wise.
I stopped by "The Home Brewery" in Springfield MO today. I wanted to pick up a few more ball lock kegs. The 12 I have are full. They used to sell them (Last Fall) for $35. Today, they were $49.99 and really beat up. I didn't buy any because I thought it was crazy to pay for kegs that looked like they were in a tornado. The owner's wife told me that most people will have to switch to pin lock because that is all they can find now. So why is that?
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your new admin on facebook "Andrea Berman" / "BlueRose" is out of control with power, acting like a snot, and perma banning anyone that disagrees with her over opinionated self.
I have seen her ban like 5 people the last couple days, and it's not like I live on facebook either, then when I spoke up and defended someone she was belittling she instantly banned me from the group like a 12 year old. Messaged her to ask why and she responded "Blocking. Have a nice day sweetie."
Just thought you all should know that she is immature and ridiculous as well as being a bad spokesperson for your website.
facebook admin drunk on power
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Flip wrote:Chin took another position or was he fired?
BasketballMind wrote:Three years later and there is no doubt in my mind Schlieve was the right guy to turn this program around. We don't play nearly the level of teams we used to, but being without a conference and now in a newly formed conference, that's going to happen. The whole feel around the football program is a complete turnaround from how it had been for so long. This year we defeated a ranked Valley City club for the first time in 15 years! People come to the games and actually stay now. We've competed with Jamestown for the first time in many years the past two season and have had signature wins over old DAC opponents (VCSU 2013, Dickinson 2012). Schlieve was the right guy because Mayville isn't a stepping stone for him, it's where he wants to be.
ndlionsfan wrote:Hired John Haines, former MSU alumni. From what I've read, old coach was upset about how MSU offers coaches contracts each year and the pay for his assistants
Flip wrote:ndlionsfan wrote:Hired John Haines, former MSU alumni. From what I've read, old coach was upset about how MSU offers coaches contracts each year and the pay for his assistants
Prior to being HC wasn't he an assistant coach himself?
Big Blue wrote:For as much talk on here that Schlieve "built" the program to new heights, I'm afraid his mid-July resignation left the foundation in two times worse of shape then he found it. He left less than three weeks before the start of fall camp. Not to mention Mayville State played in the first college football game of the season. Also, the team will be playing a much tougher schedule than the last three seasons. I'm afraid it will take around two or three years to see how Haines will do considering he wasn't given a fighting chance to prepare for this season.
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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Two men rescued from a sailboat that washed ashore on Ponte Vedra Beach late Monday night were taken to Flagler Hospital to be treated, according to St. Johns County Fire Rescue.
Authorities say the sailboat lost power and had been adrift for several days prior to running aground around 11:25 p.m. in the area of the 3000 block of South Ponte Vedra Boulevard.
Fire Rescue was alerted of the boat by a resident in the area.
Authorities said Francis Saunders, 86, of Port St. Lucie, and Jerry Willis, 71, of Cocoa Beach, suffered minor injuries. They said when they arrived, the two men were hanging onto the side of the aft end and looked to be tired and confused. They were taken safely to shore.
The men told St. Johns County deputies they were trying to get to Grand Bahama Island but somehow got turned around on the way there. They said they had been on the boat for the last seven days and lost power, causing them to drift.
Deputies said a rope coming from a sail draped over the bow was entangled in the prop, which may have seized the motor enough to cut power.
Alfy, a dog also on the boat, was OK.
Neighbors living on the beach said they heard a bang when the boat came on shore.
"One of the guys told me they had been without power for roughly a week and were floating out in the Atlantic, and they had to beach the boat to get help," Ronald Hastings said. "They didn't know where they were. They thought they were a lot farther north than where they were."
"But the curious thing is where were the batteries, the GPS system, why weren't they in contact with people on the shore?" said Bruce Joldersna, who's visiting from Michigan and also sails. "Usually you have a course plotted out and people know where you are going and would know if you weren't at those points."
Investigators said they have a lot of unanswered questions.
The U.S. Coast Guard and Florida Wildlife Commission personnel remained at the grounding site trying to determine what went wrong.
The men were later released from the hospital.
A local boat salvage company says the plan is to remove the boat sometime Wednesday morning.


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ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- No security guards were on duty at the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam, Netherlands, when seven paintings were stolen, police reports indicate.
Kunsthal director Emily Ansenk said the facility used video cameras and an alarm system that were installed in consultation with its insurers, "but no people," DutchNews.nl reported Wednesday.
"We have state-of-the-art security," Ansenk said.
The paintings, stolen Tuesday, were part of the Triton Foundation collection and on display as part of the museum's 20th anniversary celebration.
"There was no one in the building and an external security firm went to the Kunsthal when the alarm went off. They discovered the break in and warned us," a police spokesman told RTV Rijnmond.
The works went on public display for the first time last week at the Kunsthal, The New York Times reported. The stolen paintings were identified as Meyer de Haan's "Self-Portrait"; Paul Gauguin's "Girl in Front of Open Window"; Claude Monet's "Waterloo Bridge, London" and "Charing Cross Bridge, London"; Henri Matisse's "Reading Girl in White and Yellow"; Pablo Picasso's "Harlequin Head"; and Lucian Freud's "Woman With Eyes Closed."
The theft "was carefully thought out, cleverly conceived and it was quickly executed, so that suggests professionals," Charles Hill, a private investigator who once worked as a Scotland Yard art detective, told the Times.
Hill retrieved a version of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" when it was stolen in 1994 in Oslo, Norway.
Marc Masurovsky, a historian and an stolen art expert in Washington, said the theft possibly was a "a contract job."
"These works were picked out," Masurovsky told the Times. "Could it be they had been targeted well before the theft, and the exhibit was the opportunity to strike?"


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I tried to install Ubuntu Quantal AM64 on a EFI - GPT notebook (asus X501U) in dualboot. Ubuntu works fine, but i can't boot windows anymore. HDD is partitioned in this way: sda1 0.2 Gb boot efi sda2 0.128 Gb sda3 60 Gb Windows sda4 210 Gb Data sda5 15 Gb Ubuntu sda6 4 Gb swap sda7 25 Gb recovery image Booting pc, grub2 runs, but if i try to select "windows 7 loader on sda3" i receive this message: "error: invalid EFI file path." If i select "windows recovery Environment on sda7" i receive: "error: impossible find command "drivemap" - error: invalid EFI file path."
I installed dualboot ubuntu many times, but this is the first time on a EFI - GPT system.
This is the Boot repair scan log: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1320178/
I think easyBCD (win utility) could have corrupted something, after used it i understood it was not compatible with EFI GPT.


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Registered investment advisors and broker-dealers are making the mistake of inventing new strategies primarily for their boomer investors at the expense of developing technological innovations that would better serve their Gen X and Gen Y clients, says a Fidelity Investments poll released on Monday.
Taken at the company's annual Executive Forum client event, the new poll finds that two-thirds of broker-dealer and RIA firm executives are primarily focusing innovation strategies on their current customer base of boomers, ages 49 to 67, and matures, ages 68 and older. Meanwhile, fewer than one-quarter said they were looking into innovations geared to Gen X, ages 34 to 48, and Gen Y, ages 18 to 33.
"While boomers hold the bulk of the nation's wealth today, there is a significant wealth shift looming, a transfer of a projected $1 trillion from the boomer generation to Gen X and Gen Y, every year for the next 40 years," said Michael Durbin, president of Fidelity Institutional Wealth Services, in a statement. "Firms focused on serving their current base, while also anticipating and adapting to changing investor dynamics, may be the best positioned to capture these assets in motion."
The 15th annual Executive Forum, held April 29 to 30 in Naples, Fla., was attended by more than 300 executives, most of whom are clients of Fidelity's custody and clearing units, which administer more than $1 trillion in combined assets as of March 31. Fidelity Investments, the financial service giant, has assets under administration of $4.2 trillion, including managed assets of $1.8 trillion, as of April 30.
Parallel Advisors Innovates Use of Salesforce CRM
One Executive Forum participant, 41-year-old Jake Schutt, principal with the San Francisco-based wealth management firm Parallel Advisors, said the Fidelity meeting is a don't-miss event because it gives him an opportunity to speak with other RIAs about best practices. This year, Schutt spent a lot of time talking about tech with his peers and about the challenges that generational differences can create in terms of practice management.
"Clients don't need a firehose, they need a dashboard, and we look at the best technology for delivering that to them," said Schutt, who custodies assets at Fidelity. "If you have lots of older people, they don't want tech, and if they're young, all they want is tech."
Either way, he added, good ideas can come from anybody in the firm. For example, Parallel staffers discovered a new use for the Salesforce.com customer relationship management tool's companywide social network, called Chatter. Parallel, which has built its platform using the Salesforce CRM, has figured out how to create a private Chatter group that allows the advisor and client to conduct business.
"It's a way to talk, and this is something the younger generation appreciates, and it allows for a secure exchange of documents," Schutt said. "The neat thing is we can also bring in the accountant or attorney, and at the end of the day, we can kick them out of the discussion. That's unique. It's something Salesforce hadn't anticipated as an innovation, and it's something I've spoken about at Salesforce events."
Game Design, Loyalty Programs and Behavioral Economics
Parallel also uses Salesforce to combine dashboards with gaming. (Gabe Zichermann, chief executive officer of Gamification Co. & Dopamine Inc., was a speaker at the Fidelity event, where advisors were urged to consider applying innovations from game design, loyalty programs and behavioral economics to help drive greater engagement with prospects, clients and employees.) The firm uses a point reward system using data tracked by Salesforce, based on how many interactions an employee has with a customer.
"I can see what every advisor is doing in terms of metrics, so it makes everything very transparent," Schutt said.
According to the Fidelity poll, almost half of firm leaders rely only on the executive team to generate new ideas, even though these leaders recognize that good ideas can come from anywhere. One-quarter reported that "the most passionate employees" generate the majority of new ideas.
"Fresh insights and new approaches exist in the minds of nearly all employees. The question is: are they being shared?," said Sanjiv Mirchandani, president of National Financial, a Fidelity Investments company, in a statement. "Fostering cultures of innovation, which create the energy and openness to enable people to share and promote new ideas, may ultimately help drive the greatest growth in the financial advice business."
Read Early Boomers May Be Last Generation on Track to Retire Well at AdvisorOne.


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He's one half of this country's most famous fictional gay couple (excepting Bert and Ernie, of course), but it seems Mr. Jesse Tyler Ferguson has something special brewing in real life, as well. The Coveteur recently stepped into the abode of the Modern Family star, which he shares with his fiancé, lawyer Justin Mikita, and, lord, is it ever adorable.
Seems the duo not only share more than a home — together they also run Tie The Knot, a charity that raises money for marriage-equality causes through the sale of, you guessed it, bow ties. Nice, no? On top of that, they take turns picking from their immaculately arranged closets. The whole deal is so cutely twee (tweely cute) that we had to scoop up our favorite shots from the shoot and put them in a slideshow for you. Remember to check out the rest of the series on The Coveteur for more. (The Coveteur)


text: Fun with Noun Pluralization libraries and the .NET Framework February 2, '11 Comments [15] Posted in BCL Sponsored By There was interesting discussion about noun pluralization on a mailing list today. One of the fun demos I throw into some talks is the automatic pluralization (taking something singular and making it plural) that's built into the Entity Framework design time tooling. For example, look at the screenshot to the right where a table of type "Goose" is called "Geese" as a set. Dmitry released a nice "Simple English Noun Pluralizer" a few years back. His code is fun to read and clever for under 400 lines. In addition to Dmitry's, in .NET 4 (Full Framework, not Client Profile) there's a little known PluralizationService inside of System.Data.Entity.Design that supports this user interface. At this point there is only support for English and while the class is abstract, there's no proper provider model or factory. Also, personally I think service should be in the Base Class Library (BCL) and should been available as an extension method on string, and I've told them so. That said, it's still pretty cool and useful. Create a new project in Visual Studio 2010. Right click on the project in the Solution Explorer, and from Properties select ".NET Framework 4" as the Target Framework. Otherwise you won't be able to see System.Data.Entity.Design in the list of .NET Assemblies from the Add Reference dialog. Add a reference, and go to town. Here's some of the things I tried. I was impressed and confused when it changed Hanselman to Hanselmen. ;) [Test]public void AnimalsAreFunWhenPluralized(){ var p = PluralizationService.CreateService(new CultureInfo("en-US")); Assert.AreEqual("geese", p.Pluralize("goose")); Assert.AreEqual("deer", p.Pluralize("deer")); Assert.AreEqual("sheep", p.Pluralize("sheep")); Assert.AreEqual("wolves", p.Pluralize("wolf")); Assert.AreEqual("volcanoes", p.Pluralize("volcano")); Assert.AreEqual("aircraft", p.Pluralize("aircraft")); Assert.AreEqual("alumnae", p.Pluralize("alumna")); Assert.AreEqual("alumni", p.Pluralize("alumnus")); Assert.AreEqual("houses", p.Pluralize("house")); Assert.AreEqual("fungi", p.Pluralize("fungus")); Assert.AreEqual("Hanselmen", p.Pluralize("Hanselman")); Assert.AreEqual("Hanselman", p.Singularize("Hanselmen"));} As I mentioned, If you wanted, you could derive from PluralizationService and create a Spanish or whatever-you-like service and plug it into the Entity Framework. Dmitry could even swap out the included service and broker calls to his own. Note that this class was really just meant to be used from the EF Tooling, but I'd like to put gentle pressure on the Powers That Be (if this is useful) to put a little more work into it, make it a core thing, and make it work in more languages. UPDATED: An interesting point from Jon Galloway. If you are using Entity Framework Code First, you can effectively disable the Pluralization Convention for Table Names by, ahem, removing the PluralizingTableNameConvention. Funny how that works, eh? namespace MvcMusicStore.Models{ public class MusicStoreEntities : DbContext { public DbSet<Album> Albums { get; set; } public DbSet<Genre> Genres { get; set; } public DbSet<Artist> Artists { get; set; } public DbSet<Cart> Carts { get; set; } public DbSet<Order> Orders { get; set; } public DbSet<OrderDetail> OrderDetails { get; set; } protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder) { modelBuilder.Conventions.Remove<PluralizingTableNameConvention>(); } }} Cool. « This Developer's Life 1.1.2 - Drive | Blog Home | Review: Living, working and using the Ci... » About Scott Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author. About Newsletter Sponsored By Hosting By Comments [15] Share on: Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or use the Permalink